Books in the Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature series

Examines the American cultural and literary preoccupation with Asia, exploring the corresponding historical-political situations - including China's Cultural Revolution and Japanese geisha culture - that have both circumscribed and enabled greater cultural and political contact between Asia and America.

Establishes a link between the western American writers, Wallace Stegner and Cormac McCarthy. This book examines the treatment of landscape and nature in their works, suggesting that they exemplify perspectives which are related to their authors' historical positions before and after the cultural watershed of the Vietnam era.

Examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century US Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of US nationalism, democracy and citizenship.

Examines the development of literary constructions of Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the Famine generation through the Great Depression.